17 if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;
18 (for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother's womb;)
19 if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering,
20 if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
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